Genome-scale Sequencing, Genomics, and Gene Regulation -- Tackling open biological problems computationally

C. Titus Brown
Laboratory of Genomics, Evolution and Development, Michigan State University

Abstract: The number and variety of large-scale biological data sets is ever increasing, bringing new computational questions and problems with them. An especially fruitful area of biological inquiry has been engendered by the massive amount of sequencing data being produced by several new technologies. I'll discuss the use of large-scale sequencing and comparative genomics to find and understand functional parts of genomes, and will touch on the use of microbial community sequencing to understand microbial ecosystems. Both of these areas are important areas of biological research with many computational questions buried within them.